I hope to get a Raspberry Pi but I would like a bit more memory. Maybe next version. I'm going to try making a case with silicon rubber that can be shaped (mix with corn starch, carbon fibers, aluminum powder, UVdye or paint), leave some clear spots for the LEDs and use polyethylene for the shape that it can be peeled off when dry.

They have built a supercomputer out of Lego blocks and 64 Raspberry Pi boards. It has a total of 1TB of RAM (via 16Gb SD cards installed on each Raspberry Pi); and it runs on standard AC mains power. Cost is about $2500 for the hardware. All software was obtained from F/OSS sources.

Awesome!

You can read more about it on the phys.org website. Link to the full article here.

Professor Cox and his son James with the Raspberry Pi supercomputer

Engineers build Raspberry Pi supercomputerSeptember 11, 2012

(Phys.org)—Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego.

The team, led by Professor Simon Cox, consisted of Richard Boardman, Andy Everett, Steven Johnston, Gereon Kaiping, Neil O'Brien, Mark Scott and Oz Parchment, along with Professor Cox's son James Cox (aged 6) who provided specialist support on Lego and system testing.

Professor Cox comments: "As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a supercomputer. We installed and built all of the necessary software on the Pi starting from a standard Debian Wheezy system image and we have published a guide so you can build your own supercomputer."...< Read the rest of this article here.>